关于中国象科学的思考——兼谈中医学的认识论实质

A Reflection on Chinese Xiang Thinking of the Epistemological Nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine

从中西医之争切入,认为文化和科学形态之深刻的思维根源是时空选择。人类在认识世界时,不可能时空并重:或以空间为主,时间为辅;或以时间为主,空间为辅。西方属于前者,中国属于后者。世界有无限多的层面,因此科学是多元的。迄今人类在科学上至少主要形成了两个源、两个流:一个是西方,一个是中国。中国文化传统坚持天人合一,主用意象思维,这是与西方不同的另一条认识路线,其目标是在现象层面而不是到现象背后寻找世界的规律,而现象属于事物的自然整体层面。

Based on the debate on traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, this paper argues that the profound ideological root of the forms of culture and science is attributed to a choice of time and space. It is impossible for human beings to understand the world with equal emphasis on time and space, or with either as the priority. The Western world focuses on space while China on time. Since the world has limitless dimensions, science is multi-dimensional. So far, two mainstreams have been developed in the world： the West and China. Chinese culture emphasizes Tianren Heyi and advocates Xiang thinking, which is a thinking pattern different from the West. And its aim is to search for the laws of the world from the pbenomenological dimension rather than going behind the phenomena, because phenomena belong to the natural wholeness of things.